Cobra Maneuver
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Cobra Maneuver
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#2Didn't Maverick pull this off in Top Gun?
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#3Didn't Maverick pull this off in Top Gun?
Also a common maneuver in Ace Combat, speaking about fictional uses.
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#4Is this the maneuver John Boyd used to use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55LY30AIoc
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#5Didn't Maverick pull this off in Top Gun?
He did a manual wing sweep on the Tomcat to pull up and force an overshoot of the Sukhoi. Growling Sidewinder on youtube says that is a Cobra.
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#6“Go up, blow up” is the common phrase in this kind of aerial combat. You highlight your heat signature against… space.
Even without heaters, I can be extremely aggressive on a guns attempt because an overshoot in the vertical isn’t nearly as risky - few aircraft can capitalize on an overshoot uphill. Almost all defenders in that situation (if they live through the attack) will be forced downhill anyway.
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#7Somewhat related: during the Falklands war it was common technique for Harriers to use their thrust vectoring nozzles to slow down quickly with a similar outcome.
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#8I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by
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#9Somewhat related: during the Falklands war it was common technique for Harriers to use their thrust vectoring nozzles to slow down quickly with a similar outcome.
Apparently yet another aviation myth according to Wikipedia:
> Braking could cause a chasing aircraft to overshoot and present itself as a target for the Harrier, a technique formally developed by the USMC for the Harrier in the early 1970s.[33][34] This technique was much discussed in the media before the Falklands War in 1982, but ultimately not used by British pilots in that conflict.[35]
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#10Unfortunately the circumstances where this is useful is very limited.
You'd have to be in very close range and in a very bad disadvantage, which honestly doesn't last long (you'd blow up very fast) and when you start decelerating you become a very easy target to hit.
And after your opponent overshoots--you just lost a ton of energy--and energy is everything in aerial combat. Energy is the currency you spend to maneuver, and you've just spent it on this hail mary.